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Cognitive tool helps professionals discover food trends

Like fashion, the world of food is ever-changing. What was trendy last month may not be in favor next month. For chefs, producers, retailers and food services companies, knowing what’s current is a vital part of staying relevant.
That’s why Barcelona-based Reimagine Food, an international hub devoted to boosting food innovation, developed SmartFoodS, a discovery tool that helps food professionals know about all the latest trends, industry news, academic studies, new products, start-up companies and other innovations in cuisine.

The company developed the tool on IBM Cloud, specifically using Watson Natural Language Understanding API on IBM Bluemix, which uses language detection, keyword extraction and sentiment analysis. It processes natural-language questions to offer up relevant results using the IBM Retrieve and Rank service, the Apache Solr search server and algorithms that get right to the heart of the query. The tool scours 40,000 information sources to find information.
“By building this discovery tool on the IBM Cloud, we have the ability to easily expand as the tool consumes more and more data, and as more and more people use it,” said Francesc Saldaña, corporate services manager at Reimagine Food.
As they do, professionals and organizations in the food production industry can keep cooking with confidence using a tool from Spain, producer of half the world’s olive oil and home to the world’s oldest restaurant, Sobrino de Botín, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.
Learn more about the power of Watson APIs.
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Facebook's Plan To Bring Millions Of Indians Online Is Dead Simple: Thousands Of Hotspots

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Facebook’s plan to bring millions of Indians online won’t involve solar-powered drones, or crazy balloons, or controversial programs like Internet.org. Instead, it involves hotspots. Thousands and thousands of plain old hotspots.

On Friday, the company announced that it is rolling out 700 WiFi hotspots in four of India’s 29 states — Uttarakhand, Gujarat, Rajasthan, and Meghalaya — followed by 20,000 more in the next few months across the rest of the country in partnership with Indian carrier Airtel.

Unlike the company’s Internet.org program that allowed Indians to access Facebook-approved websites for free — and which was shut down by regulators for violating net neutrality — Facebook’s new plan called Express WiFi, isn’t gratis. Instead, Facebook has partnered with over 500 local retailers, and other commercial establishments in the four states to make these hotspots available to users at affordable prices.

These partners will be able to set their own prices and data packs for Express WiFi, a Facebook spokesperson told BuzzFeed News.

Typical plans, according to Facebook, start out at Rs. 10 for 100 MB of data (about 15 cents) and go up to Rs 300 for 20 GB of data a day (about $5).

“Express Wi-Fi is designed to complement mobile data offerings by providing a low-cost, high bandwidth alternative for getting online and access apps, download and stream content,” said Munish Seth, Facebook’s Head of Connectivity Solutions for Asia Pacific in a statement, but Facebook did not comment on BuzzFeed News’ questions about the speed at which users will be able to access the internet using these hotspots.

Facebook has been testing Express WiFi in India since 2015. It’s the company’s fastest growing market and arguably its most important — 184 million of Facebook’s nearly 2 billion users are from India, and over 200 million Indians use WhatsApp, Facebook’s instant messaging service.

Facebook’s Express WiFi program is similar to what Google has been doing in India for some time now. By the end of 2016, Google installed free, high-speed WiFi at 100 Indian railway stations, and is now expanding the program into cafes, museums, restaurants and more Wi-Fi starved locations across the country.

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Crash durch universitären Security-Scan

Vorsicht vor der 158.130.6.191: Ein vermeintlich harmloser Scan von dieser Adresse führt immer mal wieder zu Problemen. So brachen deswegen kürzlich die VPN-Verbindungen von Watchguard Fireboxes periodisch zusammen.

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